The smell of liquor and fresh cut pine
On May 24 about 8:30 p.m., officers Joseph Pitta and Thomas Yerkes were called to a trailer park at 43 Fisherville Road for a report of a man who had cut down a tree onto some power lines.
When they arrived, Donald Taylor, 54, of Concord, was standing in the road next to a large limb on top of the downed lines, Pitta’s report said.
Taylor’s neighbor was yelling at him and calling him a dumb–s. “What did you think was going to happen?” the neighbor asked, according to the report. Taylor responded, “I know, I’m sorry,” and, “You never did anything stupid before?”
Pitta said he observed a ladder leaning against a large pine tree, where the 18-inch limb had been cut about 10 to 15 feet up, the report said.
“I approached Taylor and he said, ‘I did it,’ Pitta wrote. “As he walked toward me I noticed that he was unsteady on his feet, covered with saw dust and his eyes were bloodshot and glassy.
“Taylor smelled of liquor and fresh cut pine,” the report said.
When asked what happened, Taylor told Pitta he decided to cut down the rest of the limb, which had been partially broken off by the wind storm. Taylor said the park’s owners had not taken care of it, the report said.
When asked how much he’d had to drink, Taylor said “a couple,” the report said. Pitta asked how much “a couple” was, and Taylor said that he’d consumed five glasses of wine over the course of four hours.
Pitta said he asked Taylor if he’d be willing to do some sobriety tests. “He said, ‘I’m not going to do any tests.’ I asked him if he thought he was impaired by the alcohol that he had consumed. He said, ‘I’m not drunk,’ ” but told Pitta he wouldn’t operate a motor vehicle in the same state, according to the report.
“It was clear to me that Taylor was intoxicated,” Pitta wrote.
Taylor was charged with criminal mischief, and bail was set at $5,000 personal recognizance. He is due in court on June 23.
A Unitil foreman who fixed the line estimated the damage to be about $3,500, which Taylor will have to repay, the report said.
Baby on board
About 4:30 p.m. on May 31, Officer Eric Crane was dispatched to Washington Street for a report of domestic disturbance. When he arrived, he met 23-year-old Treste Bean at the Suds Appeal Laundromat. Bean, of Concord, was holding her 10-day-old infant and crying, the report said.
Bean told Crane she’d had an argument with her boyfriend in their upstairs apartment. Bean said the fight started out verbal but got physical when her boyfriend said things that “enraged” her, according to the police.
Bean told Crane she had kicked her boyfriend in the leg and that he grabbed her by the arms and forced her to sit on to the bed.
When Officer Timothy King arrived on scene, he went upstairs to interview Bean’s boyfriend and his mother.
Bean’s boyfriend told the police she threw a bowl of soup at him, then kicked him in the leg.
“He did admit to grabbing her by the arm and forcing her to sit in an attempt to calm her down, as the entire time she had been holding the baby,” Crane wrote.
Bean was charged with one count of simple assault and transported to the police station with her child in an evidence collection vehicle.
Bail was set at $1,000 and she is due in court June 21.